Gigabyte Z97X-SOC FORCE Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S1150 by leeghoofd @ 2014-07-22

Gigabyte continues to release new products in their orange themed overclocking motherboard series. The first of the OC series was the immaculate X58 OC motherboard, a trimmed down on features board, however purely designed to provide the ultimate overclocking experience. Sadly the X58 OC board arrived just a tad too late on the market to become a major selling product. Nevertheless a trend was set: deliver affordable, yet customized for maximum tweaking potential motherboard series. Other brands had similar overclocking friendly boards yet retailing at far more elevated prices. The predecessor, the Z87X-OC was one of the most utilized overclocking boards during the last year according statistics expert Massman from HWBot.org. Gigabyte had to live up to its name and make the Z97X-SOC FORCE as good or preferably even better…

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Specifications

 

 

 

  • Supporting Intel core processors from the 4th and 5th generation
  • Intel Z97 chipset
  • 1 x SATA Express connector
  • 6 x SATA 6GB/s connnectors
  • Support for RAID0, RAID1, RAID5 and RAID10

  • 4 DDR3 DIMM slots support up to 32GB of system memory. Support for up to DDR3 3300 via OC. XMP and non-ECC modules upported

  • Nvidia 2-way SLi supported and AMD 4-way Crossfire
  • 4 PCIe X16 slots: 1 x PCIe at x16, 1 x PCIe at x8, 2 x PCIe at x4
  • 1 PCIe x1 slot
  • 2 x PCI slot
  • 6 x USB3.0/2.0 ports (4 ports on the back panel, 2 ports available through the internal USB header)
  • 8 x USB2.0/1.1 ports (4 ports on the back panel, 2 ports onboard, 2 ports available through the internal USB header)
  • 2 x 128Mbit flash Bios with patented DualBIOS technology
  • Use of licenced AMI UEFI BIOS
  • Realtek ALC 1150 chipset
  • High Definition Audio
  • 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel support
  • Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2201 chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)
  • 1 x optical s/PDIF Out connector
  • 1 x D-Sub port, supporting maximum resolution 1920x1200@60Hz
  • 1x DVD-D port, supporting maximum resolution 1920x1200@60Hz
  • 1 x HDMI port, supporting maximum resolution 4096x2160@24Hz or 2560x1600@60Hz
  • 1 x DisplayPort, supporting maximum resolution 4096x2160@24Hz or 3840x2160@60Hz
  • Support for up to 3 displays at the same time
  • Maximum shared memory of 512MB

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